The Politics of Enthusiasm, Geoff Manaugh talks to Ballardian: '..I think architects should read Ballard. At the very least, his sarcastic reaction to over-earnest housing plans and suburban mega-malls is quite sobering. Along these lines, Iíve often thought that if the evening news included a daily primer about how to live inside modern architecture ó what the actual point of modern architecture was; that it had a point, for instance ó then more people would be excited by Le Corbusier. Or by Richard Meier. Or even by Norman Foster.'